When a boy I had done both fifty times, and it was a somewhat common experiment among the male domestics and hirelings of the household.
Here, then, I had enjoyed an opportunity of hearing the opinions of one of my own hirelings on the interesting subject of my right to my own estate.
He, like his English friends, had thought it better to brave Jahangir's animosity in Agra itself than fall beneath the attack of hirelings in some distant fray.
Mowbray, whose judgment was cooler and truer in the frenzy of a fight than when a woman's eyes assailed him, did not forget that where Jai Singh had introduced his hirelings others might follow.
But English gold was easily convertible into French soldiers, whose sovereign had no such scruples; and these hirelings were selected to restore the Pope.
Use them, and you shall have the treatment you more deserve--that accorded to hirelings and brigands!
That the employer should be liable to pay the personal taxes of his employees, and might recoup himself from any wages due to said hirelings or to become due.
A salutary lesson had been administered to thehirelings of the usurpers, and with a new moon approaching its full, it was believed that night marauding had ended for that winter.
You recollect the Cradle of Liberty shut to a Free Soil Convention, but open to those hirelings of the Slave Master.
Every one waited to see Lincoln and his hirelings disappear in one vast debacle.
The coarse cruelty of Lincoln and his hirelings was notorious.
When Sir William Wallace is entering full sail, you will send your hirelingsto tow him in!
Behave as becomes your high destiny; and debase not yourselves by imitating the hirelings of ambition, who receive, as the wages of their valor, the base privilege to ravage and to murder.
The hirelings of Fulbert entered and fell upon the sleeping man.
The treacherous valet and one of Fulbert's hirelings were run down, seized, and mutilated precisely as Abelard had been; and their eyes were blinded.
But Dermat flung him down like the others, while Angus gave him for the time the shape of Dermat, so that the hirelings slew him.
But Angus gave him a blow which hurled him to the ground under the shape of Dermat, so that the hirelings fell on him and slew him.
And marshalling his men, and causing the great door to be thrown wide open, he sallied forth and scattered the assailants, and put out the fires: slaying thrice fifty hirelings in that onslaught.
And Oscar joined him, looking back threateningly, so that no man of Finn's hirelings durst follow.
For at this time the king's hirelings were again thundering at the doors.
And Finn's hirelings cut off his head on the spot, for Angus had caused him to take the shape of Dermat; but after he was slain he took his own shape, so that all knew that it was Garva of Slieve Cua that had been killed.
He denounced the cowardice which could permit this band of hirelings to retire with so much jewelry, merchandize, and plate, the result of their robberies.
The Federalists were convinced that France maintained a party in America which by means of corrupt hirelings and subsidized presses was paralyzing the efforts of the Administration to defend national rights.
The spectacle of the new republic confronting the allied monarchs of Europe thrilled those who had battled with the hirelings of George the Third.
But he meant to take my life when I escaped the pursuit of his hirelings in Italy.
You are aware that, after the skirmish with Peschiera's armed hirelings sent in search of you, I received a polite message from the Austrian government, requesting me to leave its Italian domains.
The hirelings of the King treated these essays with derision--upon the people they exerted an influence that prepared them for the approaching crisis.
His knowledge of the intentions of the mother country to impose increasing burdens upon the Americans enabled him to fully understand every movement of the monarchical hirelings around him.
So delighted were the people with the manner he handled the hirelings of the crown that they elected him to the colonial assembly.
Judge McKean was the first judicial officer who put a veto on stamped paper--directing the officers of the courts over which he presided not to use it, as had been ordered by the hirelings of the crown.
Mr. Read and his coadjutors understood the rights secured by Magna Charta and the Constitution of England and knew that those rights were trampled upon by the hirelings of the crown.
Astonishment and delight held his electrified audience captive as he painted the increasing infringements of the hirelings of the crown in bold and glowing colors.
He was a sensible lawyer and opposed to the usurpations of the hirelings of mother Britain although himself secretary of his native province when the revolutionary storm commenced its pitiless peltings.
As the crisis was urged on by the hirelings of the crown his opposition increased in an equal ratio.
This was made a pretext for more severe measures by the hirelings of the crown who recommended to Parliament the disfranchisement of the colony.
The goadings and insolence of British hirelings had deeply penetrated his patriotic soul and prepared him for bold and noble action.
It had a powerful and salutary effect and met with a response from the people that, caused the hirelings of the crown to fly from the province like chaff before the wind.
The very chivalry that the proud Britons had taught the sons of the Old Dominion was brought to bear upon the hirelings of the crown with the force of an avalanche.
He was courted by the hirelings of the crown with the promise of high honors.
The hirelings of the crown saw the writing upon many walls and were suddenly attacked with a Belshazzar tremor and found no balance in America to restore an equilibrium.
He laid much stress on the surreptitious entry of the Pinkertons and the assumption that somebody had authority to give these private hirelings orders to shoot.
Treatise on the Means of Removing Hirelings out of the Church?
But Socialists understand that the mercenary hirelings drawn from this class, and directly employed to keep them "in order," are less dangerous than the capitalists' camp followers.
We must wash it out in the blood of a hundred or so of his hirelings to-morrow.
What will the lies of a whole sanjak of your hirelings avail against the honor of a Janizary?
Your hirelings will tamper with his birds and his effects in the night--I know that, Monsieur le Comte," she had said when she demanded this.
The hirelings of Nob Hill know it, and that is why they trampled on the liberties of speech in the attempt to shut the mouth of the injured man.
In a few months the hirelings of the Company and the Driver of the Wagon became well acquainted with the Large Envelope containing the only Hope of the present decadent Period.
Aleck had his whole Staff so buffaloed that the Hirelings tried to keep up with him, so that Life in the Beehive was just one thing after another, with no Intermission.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hirelings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
